Latest Cook Strait Stories
49-year-old musician, City Council member, and world class marathon swimmer will brave tough currents to complete the fifth trek of her "Ocean's 7" swims CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Charleston, South Carolina's City Council member and symphony harpist, Kathleen Wilson and her U.S. crew of two will fly to New Zealand February 27 with high hopes to receive the go-ahead to swim the Cook Strait. The only "if "is weather conditions. Wilson, 49, has become a marathon...
WELLINGTON is a city of the sea. Its character is defined by the harbour, and by its rugged coastline. That is why news that a new proposal for a marine education centre, looking out on Lyall Bay, is especially welcome. An earlier proposal, to build the education centre at Te Raekaihau Pt a little further south around the coastal road from Lyall Bay, died after the Environment Court denied resource consent, with two of its three members deciding the centre would alter the area too much....
Latest Cook Strait Reference Libraries
The New Zealand fur seal or Southern fur seal (kokono in the MÄori language), Arctocephalus fosteri, is a species of fur seal found around the south coast of Australia. It is also found on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and some of the small islands to the south and east of there. Male-only colonies are also located on the Cook Strait coast of the North Island near Wellington. The species has two common names because the Australian and New Zealand populations do not...
